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THREE FILMS BY HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA
complete 4-disc boxset
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/458
http://www.amazon.com/Hiroshi-Teshigahara-Pitfall-Criterion-Collection/dp/B000PKG6O4/
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews32/three_films_hiroshi_teshigahara.htm
DVD Release Date: July 10, 2007
ABOUT THE BOXSET:
CONTENTS OF THE BOXSET:
3 feature films + bonus disc:
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962, 97 min.)
http://www.criterion.com/films/827
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203612/
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, 97 min.)
http://www.criterion.com/films/826
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966, 124 min.)
http://www.criterion.com/films/828
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061065/
# Four short films by Hiroshi Teshigahara:
Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako/White Morning (1963).
# A new documentary about the working relationship beween Teshigahara and Kobo Abe.
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 6.82 + 7.67 + 7.44 + 7.38 GB - Exact Untouched Copy
Time (total): 521 minutes
Type: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound (main features): Japanese
Subtitles: optional English
DISC DETAILS
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DISC ONE
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PITFALL
http://www.criterion.com/films/827
1962, 97 min.
Black and White
1.33:1
Japanese
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DISC TWO
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WOMAN IN THE DUNES
http://www.criterion.com/films/826
1964, 147 min.
One of the sixties' great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic worldview of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eija Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert; when he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow (Kiyoko Kishida) who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most bristling, unnerving, and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of everyday Sisyphean struggle, for which Teshigahara received an Academy Award nomination for best director.
Black and White
1.33:1
Japanese
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DISC THREE
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THE FACE OF ANOTHER
http://www.criterion.com/films/828
1966, 124 min.
Black and White
1.33:1
Japanese
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DISC FOUR
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# Video essays on all three films by critic and festival programmer James Quandt.
# Four short films by Hiroshi Teshigahara: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako/White Morning (1963).
# A new documentary about the working relationship beween Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, including interviews with Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato.
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